I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. – Izaak Walton
There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. – Izaak Walton
There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. – Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. – Izaak Walton
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837